Howdy all. I’m looking for some feedback from you all regarding how we should handle self-promotion of software, and how we grant permission to allow some to share what they have been working on.

We used to be fairly generous and laid back with granting permission, granting most requests after a simple modmail and a quick review of the product. However, due to the AI boom we started receiving a flood of requests for permission to share what ultimately ended up being low-quality hastily written software, which of course understandably led to many complaints. We stopped accepting new requests for a while so that we could come up with a plan to handle future requests in a fair manner.

Our team has come up with the following requirements, some of which were already part of our old guidelines:

• Applications must be either open source or they must be available in the Microsoft Windows app store. This is mainly for safety reasons. We're not equipped to toughly test software for safety and security, these options allow third parties to check.
• The application must have a permanent free tier. Freemium products are allowed, however limited time trials are not.
• The application must have been publicly available for at least 30 days. We would like to see that it is regularly being updated, maintained, fixed and improved upon.
• The application must provide value to the community.
• The developer must provide proof that their Reddit account is connected to the project.
• Their Reddit account must also be well established with a posting history that is not just related to the promotion of their software.
• Discourse of AI usage - Use of AI to generate code, artwork, descriptions, and so on is permitted, however the descriptions and posts need to disclose at least the use of that, preferably with also disclosing what AI tools were used and what they had generated.

Our goal is to keep things fair and allow hard working developers to show off various Windows programs they have worked on, while not allowing the subreddit to be overrun with spam and low-quality slop.

What are your thoughts? Too restrictive? Not restrictive enough? Thank you for your time!